The moment a man was arrested by officers over a shooting in Birkby at the weekend has been captured on camera.

The clip was filmed outside the Premier Inn hotel on St Andrew's Road at Aspley on Sunday evening, and shows a man being led out to a police van with his arms behind his back.

An eyewitness described seeing at least eight police cars and vans at the scene at about 7.30pm.

She said: "No one was allowed in or out of the area and around 10 minutes later one armed and about three non armed police brought out a male head down with his arms wrapped around his back and placed him in a police car.

"He was then taken back out and searched before being placed back in the car. The police then all went back inside where I’m guessing searches took place!

"About half an hour later a lot of armed police came out with shields etc and placed them back in their cars. No one left the area but shorty after this we left and people were allowed in and out again. There were police and dogs all outside along the canal too."

A police spokesperson said: “Although our investigations are in their early stages, we are treating them as targeted incidents.

“Thankfully no one was more seriously injured, however undoubtedly the criminal use of firearms will cause concern in the community. We take all firearms discharges extremely seriously and we have increased high visibility patrols in the area to offer reassurance to the public."

A spokesperson for Premier Inn told ExaminerLive they it would be "inappropriate" for them to comment on an ongoing police investigation but that they would "assist West Yorkshire Police with their enquiries as needed".

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, quoting crime reference 13180651151. Crimestoppers can be contacted in confidence on 0800 555 111.